Urban Strike

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Urban Strike
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Game Gear
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Sega Game Gear
Black Pearl Software
Developer:
Genre: Shoot-'em-Up

















Release Date RRP Code
Sega Game Gear
US
T-100048

Urban Strike: The Sequel to Jungle Strike (Urban Strike for short) is a shoot-'em-up game developed by Electronic Arts, Granite Bay Software, and Foley Hi-Tech and initially released in 1994 for the Sega Mega Drive exclusively in the US and Europe before being ported to a variety of other consoles, including to the Sega Game Gear (released 1995). It is the third game in the Strike series, following Jungle Strike.

Story

In the year 2001 a candidate for public office, H.R. Malone, is found out as a criminal (despite having political messages promising eliminating crime) by the US Special Forces team of the previous games. This leads to a call to an associate to investigate and stop the Special Forces team from interfering with the setup of a superweapon. Seemingly unbeknownst to Malone, that associate is actually a Special Forces infiltrator leaking the information... but the limo he is to leave in explodes, and the rest of the team is called in to stop Malone with stop the leaking of what little information they have.

Gameplay

Gameplay is identical to other Strike games: Up/Down move forward/backward, Left/Right rotate the helicopter, A shoots hellfires and jink, B shoots hydra, C shoots normal helicopter guns,  START  pulls up a map, and there are missions to complete in each level. However, the player must occasionally leave the helicopter and complete some parts of missions on foot.

Production credits

Mega Drive version

  • Programming: Mike Posehn
  • Game Design: John Manley, Tony Barnes
  • Art Director: Julie Cressa
  • Implementation: Ross Wentworth, Erich Horn
  • Art: Victor French, Tom Lisowski, Tony Gascon, Ron Sacdalan, Walter Ianneo, Jeff Fennel
  • 3-D Models: Tim Calvin, Terry Falls, Lance Armstrong, Peter Traugot
  • Additional Art: Kendra Lammas, Michael Shirley, Susan Manley, Keith Bullen
  • Sound and Music: Don Veca
  • Technical Director: Tim Brengle
  • Product Manager: David Sze
  • Assistant Producer: Michael Lubuguin
  • Foley Hi-Tech Producer: David Foley
  • Project Manager: Susan Manley
  • Assistant Director: Antonio Barnes
  • Produced By: Scott Berfield
  • Directed By: John Manley
Source:
In-game credits (title screen roll)

Magazine articles

Main article: Urban Strike/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #62: "September 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
also published in:
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Print advert in Sega Visions (US) #21: "October/November 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
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Print advert in Supersonic (FR) #25: "Octobre 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
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Print advert in Hobby Consolas (ES) #37: "Octubre 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
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Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
92 №36, p96-98
82 №156, p87[2]
83
92 №22, p46/47
90 №5, p15
80
89 №25, p82-84[3]
88 №26, p48/49
85
92 №46, p88-91[4]
90 №10, p78/79
93 №59, p48/49
92 №39, p78/79
91 №41, p11
84 №25, p70-72[5]
Sega Mega Drive
88
Based on
15 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
50
[6]
Ação Games (BR)
97
[7]
Aktueller Software Markt (DE)
92
[8]
Consoles + (FR)
92
[9]
Cool Gamer (RU)
80
[10]
Computer & Video Games (UK)
82
[2]
Digitiser (UK) PAL
90
[11]
Electronic Games (1992-1995) (US) NTSC-U
75
[12]
Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)
90
[13]
Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 6 (RU)
50
[14]
Game Players (US) NTSC-U
83
[15]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
88
[16]
GamePro (DE) PAL
80
[17]
Gamer (GR)
90
[18]
GamesMaster (UK) PAL
92
[19]
Games World: The Magazine (UK) PAL
90
[20]
Game Informer (US) NTSC-U
75
[21]
Igry Sega Luchshiye iz luchshikh. Vypusk 2 (RU)
56
[22]
Joypad (FR) PAL
86
[23]
Joypad (HU)
82
[24]
Mega (UK) PAL
88
[25]
Mega Force (FR) PAL
90
[26]
Mega Fun (DE) PAL
85
[27]
Micro Kid's Multimédia (FR)
75
[28]
Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL
89
[3]
Next Generation (US) NTSC-U
50
[29]
Player One (FR)
92
[4]
Play Time (DE)
85
[30]
Power Up! (UK)
90
[31]
Score (CZ)
65
[32]
Sega Magazine (UK) PAL
90
[33]
Sega Power (UK) PAL
93
[34]
Sega Pro (UK) PAL
92
[35]
Sega Mega Drive Review (RU)
82
[36]
Sonic the Comic (UK) PAL
91
[37]
Supersonic (FR)
84
[5]
Todo Sega (ES)
95
[38]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
85
[39]
Video Games (DE) PAL
84
[40]
VideoGames (US)
90
[41]
Sega Mega Drive
83
Based on
40 reviews

Urban Strike

Mega Drive, US
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Cover
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Cart
Urban Strike MD US Manual.pdf
Manual
Mega Drive, US (cardboard)

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Mega Drive, EU
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Cover
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Game Gear version

Game Gear, US
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Cover
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References

  1. Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 42
  2. 2.0 2.1 File:CVG UK 156.pdf, page 87 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 156.pdf_p87" defined multiple times with different content
  3. 3.0 3.1 File:MeanMachinesSega25UK.pdf, page 82 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega25UK.pdf_p82" defined multiple times with different content
  4. 4.0 4.1 File:PlayerOne FR 046.pdf, page 88 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:PlayerOne FR 046.pdf_p88" defined multiple times with different content
  5. 5.0 5.1 File:Supersonic FR 25.pdf, page 70 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Supersonic FR 25.pdf_p70" defined multiple times with different content
  6. 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 254
  7. Ação Games, "Outubro 1994" (BR; 1994-10-16), page 26
  8. Aktueller Software Markt, "Januar 1995" (DE; 1994-12-05), page 30
  9. Consoles +, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 96
  10. Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 230
  11. Digitiser (UK) (1994-10-03)
  12. Electronic Games (1992-1995), "October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 86
  13. Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 366
  14. Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 6, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 250
  15. Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 110
  16. GamePro, "November 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 92
  17. GamePro, "Oktober 1994" (DE; 1994-09-30), page 43
  18. Gamer, "Dekémvrios 1994" (GR; 1994-xx-xx), page 1
  19. GamesMaster, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-22), page 46
  20. Games World: The Magazine, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-09-29), page 15
  21. Game Informer, "December 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 24
  22. Igry Sega Luchshiye iz luchshikh. Vypusk 2, "" (RU; 2001-08-27), page 364
  23. Joypad, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 96
  24. Joypad, "1/1995" (HU; 1995-xx-xx), page 14
  25. Mega, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-10-27), page 48
  26. Mega Force, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 86
  27. Mega Fun, "09/94" (DE; 1994-08-24), page 100
  28. Micro Kid's Multimédia, "Février 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 50
  29. Next Generation, "Premiere Issue 1995" (US; 1994-12-08), page 108
  30. Play Time, "10/94" (DE; 1994-09-07), page 104
  31. Power Up!, "Saturday, September 24, 1994" (UK; 1994-09-24), page 1
  32. Score, "Prosinec 1994" (CZ; 1994-12-01), page 22
  33. Sega Magazine, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-15), page 78
  34. Sega Power, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-01), page 48
  35. Sega Pro, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-11-03), page 78
  36. Sega Mega Drive Review, "1" (RU; 1995-04-03), page 174
  37. Sonic the Comic, "December 23rd 1994" (UK; 1994-12-10), page 11
  38. Todo Sega, "Octubre 1994" (ES; 1994-xx-xx), page 38
  39. Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 214
  40. Video Games, "10/94" (DE; 1994-09-28), page 94
  41. VideoGames, "November 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 78



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